Erve Chambers
(Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1973)

Executive Board
Center for Heritage Resource Studies
University of Maryland, College Park

Professor and Chair
Department of Anthropology
University of Maryland, College Park

Phone:  301-405-1425
Email:  echambers@anth.umd.edu

Erve Chambers is a member of the Executive Board for the Center for Heritage Resource Studies.  Chambers has been instrumental in developing Applied Anthropology in the United States.  He is past president of the Society for Applied Anthropology and he is the founding editor for one of its journals—Practicing Anthropology.  In 2004 he was awarded the Society for Applied Anthropology's Sol Tax Distinguished Service Award.  In 2005 Chambers served as the Program Chair for "Heritage, Tourism and Environment", the Annual Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology. His areas of interest include tourism and urban and regional development.  He has conducted field research in Thailand, Mexico, and in several parts of the United States.

His current research and theoretical activities focus on issues related to sustainable tourism development.  He also maintains a strong general interest in the ways in which anthropological knowledge influences and is influenced by contemporary cultural discourse.  

He is the author/editor of several books and monographs, including

	Heritage Matters: Culture, History, and Chesapeake Bay Musings (Maryland Sea Grant 2006)
	Places in Mind: Archaeology as Applied Anthropology (Routledge 2004) with Paul Shackel
	Native Tours: The Anthropology of Tourism (Waveland 1999)
	Tourism and Culture: Applied Perspectives (SUNY 1997)
	Housing, Culture, and Design: A Comparative Perspective (Pennsylvania 1989) with Setha M. Low
	Applied Anthropology: A Practical Guide (Prentice Hall 1985)

Some of his current and recent work include:

	Heritage and Tourism on Maryland's Eastern Shore
	International Tourism Management Program, Associazione per I'Istituzione Libera Universita Nuorese (AILUN) in Sardinia, Italy
	Supporting the development of research cooperation and heritage and tourism training programs with the Research Institute of Southeast University in Suzhou, China.